Around 700 BC another
group of people began to arrive. Many of them were tall, and had fair or red
hair and blue eyes. These were the Celts, who probably came from central Europe
or further east, from southern Russia, and had moved slowly westwards in
earlier centuries. The Celts were technically advanced. They knew how to work
with iron, and could make better weapons than the people who used bronze. It
is possible that they drove many of the older inhabitants westwards into Wales,
Scotland and Ireland. The Celts began to control all the lowland areas of
Britain, and were joined by new arrivals from the European mainland. They
continued to arrive in one wave after another over the next seven hundred
years.
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